Bill Maher: 'Thug' the New N-Word, Racism's 'Gone Underground'

26 Jan 2014

BILL MAHER: “But people do that. Whenever they see a black guy they don’t like: thug. Because it’s socially unacceptable now — unlike when it once was — to say the n-word. So that’s sort of the word that they use instead. I mean, this was Martin Luther King Day we had on Monday and I noticed that Sarah Palin was lecturing Obama on not playing the race card. Who better than a white woman from a state with [only] white people to be telling our first black president…”